Salad Fantasia

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• ½ jar pickles
• n. B. Oil
• 4 jacket potatoes
• salt and pepper
• 5 carrots, freshly cooked
• 200 g beetroot, pre-cooked, peeled
• 3 eggs, hard-boiled
• n. B. Mayonnaise (Russian salad mayonnaise)

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour 15 minutes; Rest time approx. 2 hours; Total time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes

à la Schuba, Russian layered salad without herring

You need about 2 cm of depth in the bowl for each layer (from bottom to top: gherkins, potatoes, carrots, beetroot). The quantities are therefore relative. Boil the potatoes and carrots with their skins on in a pot until al dente, so they are not too soft. Meanwhile, finely grate the gherkins and beetroot. Then peel the potatoes and carrots (careful, they are hot) and grate them too (all ingredients separately). Now come the layers (from bottom to top): grated gherkins, 1 splash of oil, 1 layer of mayonnaise, grated potatoes, salt and pepper, 1 layer of mayonnaise, grated carrots, salt and pepper, 1 layer of mayonnaise, grated beetroot, 1 layer of mayonnaise. After 2 hours, spread the 3 finely grated eggs evenly over the layered salad. The mayonnaise layers should not be too thick, and the individual layers should be nice and even and flat.